The Genesis of the Forms Plato’s authorship spanned some fifty years, from the death of Socrates in 399 BCE to his own death in c. 348. He is traditionally ascribed with 35 dialogues ...

Plato was a young man when he first encountered Socrates, and he quickly became one of his most devoted disciples. He was present at many of the philosopher’s famous dialogues or heard about ...

for it aims at discovering what Plato really means and how the arguments of these two dialogues are related to the rest of his work.